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Need for HIV/AIDS Education and Intervention for MTF Transgenders

Responding to the Challenge

Tooru Nemoto PhD Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, USA
,
Lydia A. Sausa PhD, MSEd Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, USA
,
Don Operario PhD Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, USA
&
Joanne Keatley MSW Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Pages 183-201 | Published online: 17 Oct 2008

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